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ezraz
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12 years ago

Audio Player & Video Player as Separate Categories?

OK, I've adapted the videoplayer example to load up my categories and point to various videos stored on my webserver. It's sideloaded and working on my box. I'm personalizing graphics and, I suppose, ...
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RokuJoel
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12 years ago
That is pretty much how you would do it - use one of the existing XML tags, or (create a new one and add to the parser at the bottom of ShowFeed.brs) to determine if the content is audio or video and you could either have a separate function to show the springboard, or decide to call an audio playback function or a video playback function from within the springboard when the user hits play. You could also integrate an audio playback mechanism into your springboard screen function itself.

- Joel